Letterboxd 4v3r4n Lacey Novinka https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/ Letterboxd - Lacey Novinka Fright Night 4n5n6 1985 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/fright-night/ letterboxd-review-909662807 Sun, 8 Jun 2025 02:12:08 +1200 2025-06-07 Yes Fright Night 1985 11797 <![CDATA[

6u532b

“Who’s gonna stop him then?” 

“Yeah, then he’ll be able to suck his way through the entire town!”

🤪

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It's in the Bag 58x 1932 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/its-in-the-bag-1932/ letterboxd-watch-903531355 Sun, 1 Jun 2025 05:26:05 +1200 2025-05-31 No It's in the Bag 1932 333187 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

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The City 1b12 1939 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-city/ letterboxd-watch-903531181 Sun, 1 Jun 2025 05:25:51 +1200 2025-05-31 No The City 1939 163093 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

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Hardly a Criminal a265x 1949 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/hardly-a-criminal/ letterboxd-watch-903530873 Sun, 1 Jun 2025 05:25:26 +1200 2025-05-31 No Hardly a Criminal 1949 252696 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

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La Ronde 416v1a 1950 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/la-ronde/ letterboxd-review-903529395 Sun, 1 Jun 2025 05:23:21 +1200 2025-05-31 No La Ronde 1950 5.0 50030 <![CDATA[

Helloooooo Anton Walbrook, the personification of my desire

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Canyon age 44b2 1946 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/canyon-age/ letterboxd-watch-903523398 Sun, 1 Jun 2025 05:16:04 +1200 2025-05-31 No Canyon age 1946 37309 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

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Becky Sharp 5v5e3f 1935 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/becky-sharp/ letterboxd-watch-902463783 Sat, 31 May 2025 01:05:53 +1200 2025-05-30 No Becky Sharp 1935 43888 <![CDATA[

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

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Charley Varrick 5f1i4p 1973 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/charley-varrick/ letterboxd-review-896879731 Sun, 25 May 2025 06:41:51 +1200 2025-05-23 Yes Charley Varrick 1973 4.0 27331 <![CDATA[

No Country for Grumpy Old Men

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The Elephant Man 5u1m19 1980 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-elephant-man/ letterboxd-review-894727153 Thu, 22 May 2025 16:52:30 +1200 2025-05-22 No The Elephant Man 1980 5.0 1955 <![CDATA[

I don’t have much of a rating system but if I cry so hard I throw up it’s a 5

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The Hound of the Baskervilles 6h4216 1929 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-1929/ letterboxd-watch-874211821 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:12:19 +1200 2025-04-27 No The Hound of the Baskervilles 1929 3.5 411617 <![CDATA[

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

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Lacey Novinka
The Gospel According to Matthew 2g2hn 1964 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-gospel-according-to-matthew-1964/ letterboxd-review-867674329 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:02:35 +1200 2025-04-20 No The Gospel According to Matthew 1964 24192 <![CDATA[

“Do not imagine that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I came not to send peace, but a sword.” 

Pasolini’s transcendent truth is a deeply welcome reminder that man’s creation of the religious myth will help us not to be crushed by the monstrousness of the universe.

PS. Speaking of existential despair, I had to look at so many AI generated images of people’s animals as humans this past week. A real balm for the soul to look deep into the human face, young and old, twink Jesus and bear Judas.

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Lacey Novinka
Babyteeth 1a5z6o 2019 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/babyteeth/ letterboxd-watch-861618837 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:49:47 +1200 2025-04-13 No Babyteeth 2019 4.5 522098 <![CDATA[

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

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Demons 5u552j 1985 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/demons/ letterboxd-review-859335925 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:47:56 +1200 2025-04-11 Yes Demons 1985 3.5 14029 <![CDATA[

Absolutely convinced that being riddled with anxiety means I will survive/thrive/lock-in in this exact siege-type scenario

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Lacey Novinka
I Was a Teenage Serial Killer 611b5i 1993 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/i-was-a-teenage-serial-killer/ letterboxd-watch-859326594 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:28:48 +1200 2025-04-11 No I Was a Teenage Serial Killer 1993 255450 <![CDATA[

Watched on Friday April 11, 2025.

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Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore 3x4b6z 1996 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/mary-janes-not-a-virgin-anymore/ letterboxd-review-859326387 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:28:22 +1200 2025-04-11 No Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore 1996 4.0 244007 <![CDATA[

Sex as painful and awkward and disappointing AND STILL a positive and wonderful and necessary part of life……Sarah Jacobson thanks for the cinematic catharsis

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Face/Off 5a4517 1997 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/face-off/ letterboxd-review-858315414 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:24:27 +1200 2025-04-09 No Face/Off 1997 3.5 754 <![CDATA[

Covid really robbed us of those face waterfalls

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Lacey Novinka
A Man and a Woman 4q5f1j 1966 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/a-man-and-a-woman/1/ letterboxd-review-858019644 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:29:56 +1200 2025-04-09 Yes A Man and a Woman 1966 4.5 42726 <![CDATA[

We tell ourselves silly little French love stories in order to live

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Lacey Novinka
The French Connection 2r4oi 1971 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-french-connection/ letterboxd-watch-858018554 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:27:47 +1200 2025-04-09 Yes The French Connection 1971 4.0 1051 <![CDATA[

Watched on Wednesday April 9, 2025.

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Lacey Novinka
Lost Highway 1y1y28 1997 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/lost-highway/ letterboxd-review-848556447 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:58:04 +1300 2025-03-29 No Lost Highway 1997 4.0 638 <![CDATA[

All my life I’ve heard so much about oiled-up sax man in The Lost Boys, and somehow not a FUCKING PEEP about Bill Pullman going gonzo on that TENOR?!

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Inland Empire 3qv33 2006 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/inland-empire/ letterboxd-review-848550890 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:47:50 +1300 2025-03-29 No Inland Empire 2006 3.0 1730 <![CDATA[

My favourite moment in Mulholland Drive is at the tail end of ‘I’ve Told Every Little Star.’ There’s this stare held between Betty and Adam on the film set, where the look shared contains such wishing and hope, romance and longing, this magic moment of possibility that blooms and withers. 

I thought of this moment as a jumping off point for Inland Empire. Taking that glittery world of possibility and watching it deteriorate into a waking nightmare. 

Pretty damn cool how Lynch’s filmography is so symbiotic, conversing with one another in the shared language of dreams and nightmares.

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Lacey Novinka
National Theatre Live 2c1t4w Dr. Strangelove, 2025 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/national-theatre-live-dr-strangelove/ letterboxd-review-847410437 Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:56:10 +1300 2025-03-27 No National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove 2025 4.0 1401957 <![CDATA[

If you can keep your head when all about you   
    Are losing theirs and whatever whatever

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4 5g435s 44 Last Day on Earth, 2011 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/4-44-last-day-on-earth/ letterboxd-review-844023711 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:34:52 +1300 2025-03-23 No 4:44 Last Day on Earth 2011 3.5 86820 <![CDATA[

Helpful to approach with:

a) an open heart
b) a long-standing affection for Willem Dafoe
c) an appreciation for Performance (1970)
d) an awareness of the massive crushing grief
e) a little 🍃

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The American Friend j724t 1977 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-american-friend/ letterboxd-review-842666581 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:50:40 +1300 2025-03-22 No The American Friend 1977 4.5 11222 <![CDATA[

You know that Baldwin quote about friendship being the mirroring of each other’s light? This feels like it’s ugliest conclusion. What if we mirror each other’s suffocating loneliness?

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Personal Best 6z4t51 1982 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/personal-best/ letterboxd-review-839965563 Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:28:56 +1300 2025-03-18 No Personal Best 1982 3.5 27609 <![CDATA[

I’m very fond of you, butch Challengers

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The Rules of Attraction 5c6e19 2002 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-rules-of-attraction/ letterboxd-review-837937363 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:43:39 +1300 2025-03-16 Yes The Rules of Attraction 2002 4.0 1809 <![CDATA[

“No one ever likes the right person”

If you watch this movie early enough in life, a little Bret Easton Ellis voice will take root in your head and you will be unable to form functioning human relationships. Six Different Ways needle drop still goes crazy.

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Shall We Dance? 2e75s 1996 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/shall-we-dance-1996/ letterboxd-watch-837921753 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:26:22 +1300 2025-03-16 No Shall We Dance? 1996 11239 <![CDATA[

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

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Cure 261646 1997 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/cure/ letterboxd-review-836189615 Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:19:00 +1300 2025-03-14 Yes Cure 1997 5.0 36095 <![CDATA[

Sometimes the mark of a good horror film is inducing a state of dread that is so visceral and destructive of Self that you must ask if you were ever alive in the first place.

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Lacey Novinka
Mamma Mia! 9421g 2008 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/mamma-mia/1/ letterboxd-review-836188889 Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:18:02 +1300 2025-03-14 Yes Mamma Mia! 2008 4.0 11631 <![CDATA[

Sometimes the mark of a good musical is inducing a state of joy that is so visceral and destructive of Self that you are once again young and sweet, only 17.

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Lacey Novinka
Mickey 17 2q27c 2025 - ★★★ (contains spoilers) https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/mickey-17/ letterboxd-review-833564282 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:12:08 +1300 2025-03-10 No Mickey 17 2025 3.0 696506 <![CDATA[

This review may contain spoilers.

The key to breaking samsara is not fucking your clone

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Lacey Novinka
Fast Times at Ridgemont High 301hn 1982 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/fast-times-at-ridgemont-high/ letterboxd-review-824145959 Sun, 2 Mar 2025 15:23:32 +1300 2025-03-01 No Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 3.5 13342 <![CDATA[

Like American Graffiti, I 100% know I’ll vibe with this more upon rewatch…but my steadfast devotion to Dazed and Confused muddled the experience…..I KNOW! Films are not in competition with each other! AND YET!!!!!!

@ 80s Judge Reinhold pls return my calls

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Lacey Novinka
The Thing 3g1v35 1982 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-thing/1/ letterboxd-review-820764325 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:40:40 +1300 2025-02-26 Yes The Thing 1982 5.0 1091 <![CDATA[

MacReady sun, Blair moon, Nauls rising

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Lacey Novinka
Mulholland Drive 2p5ev 2001 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/mulholland-drive/ letterboxd-watch-820763557 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:39:15 +1300 2025-02-26 Yes Mulholland Drive 2001 5.0 1018 <![CDATA[

Watched on Wednesday February 26, 2025.

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Lacey Novinka
Klute 462z1i 1971 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/klute/ letterboxd-review-813909067 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:47:47 +1300 2025-02-18 No Klute 1971 5.0 466 <![CDATA[

I didn’t even watch this movie I’m literally just anticipating the day I get to watch it again

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Lacey Novinka
In the Realm of the Senses 2o6hi 1976 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/in-the-realm-of-the-senses/ letterboxd-review-809773862 Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:36:14 +1300 2025-02-14 No In the Realm of the Senses 1976 5.0 5879 <![CDATA[

Ahhh cute

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Lacey Novinka
Bridget Jones 6j2b6y Mad About the Boy, 2025 - ★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy/ letterboxd-review-809773405 Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:35:56 +1300 2025-02-14 No Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025 3.0 1272149 <![CDATA[

Ahhh cute

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Lacey Novinka
Original Cast Album 2yb23 Company, 1970 - ★★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/original-cast-album-company/1/ letterboxd-review-799417887 Tue, 4 Feb 2025 12:22:26 +1300 2025-02-03 Yes Original Cast Album: Company 1970 4.5 100776 <![CDATA[

Happy 100th Elaine “the GOAT” Stritch

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Boxing Helena 5y48s 1993 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/boxing-helena/ letterboxd-review-792109036 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:34:30 +1300 2025-01-27 No Boxing Helena 1993 3.5 18215 <![CDATA[

Films don’t have to be “good” so long as they’re perverted come on we’re all grown ups

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Lacey Novinka
Alien 3b321p Romulus, 2024 - ★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/alien-romulus/ letterboxd-review-777142047 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:27:04 +1300 2025-01-14 No Alien: Romulus 2024 1.5 945961 <![CDATA[

Need it on the record that the ghost of Ian Holm looks like a damn Team America character.

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Lacey Novinka
Queer 2c1u41 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/queer-2024/ letterboxd-watch-669532648 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:48:16 +1200 2024-09-11 No Queer 2024 1059128 <![CDATA[

Watched on Wednesday September 11, 2024.

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Lacey Novinka
Megalopolis 123c5j 2024 - ★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/megalopolis-2024/ letterboxd-review-669050027 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:49:26 +1200 2024-09-10 No Megalopolis 2024 2.5 592831 <![CDATA[

I ire the vision but I draw the line at quoting Sappho to a straight couple.

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Lacey Novinka
Measures for a Funeral t6n1i 2024 - ★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/measures-for-a-funeral/ letterboxd-watch-667299093 Sun, 8 Sep 2024 16:36:52 +1200 2024-09-08 No Measures for a Funeral 2024 4.0 1313637 <![CDATA[

Watched on Sunday September 8, 2024.

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Men of War 24w36 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/men-of-war-2024/ letterboxd-watch-667262453 Sun, 8 Sep 2024 15:43:11 +1200 2024-09-07 No Men of War 2024 1324327 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday September 7, 2024.

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Lacey Novinka
Hard Truths 3m541k 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/hard-truths-2024/ letterboxd-watch-667262261 Sun, 8 Sep 2024 15:42:55 +1200 2024-09-07 No Hard Truths 2024 1013154 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday September 7, 2024.

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The Damned 5g511a 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-damned-2024-2/ letterboxd-watch-666500736 Sat, 7 Sep 2024 16:16:21 +1200 2024-09-07 No The Damned 2024 1059010 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday September 7, 2024.

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The Substance 2t2s2u 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-substance/ letterboxd-watch-666497293 Sat, 7 Sep 2024 16:09:32 +1200 2024-09-07 No The Substance 2024 933260 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday September 7, 2024.

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Lacey Novinka
All We Imagine as Light 4c5314 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/all-we-imagine-as-light/ letterboxd-watch-665723098 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:14:41 +1200 2024-09-05 No All We Imagine as Light 2024 927547 <![CDATA[

Watched on Thursday September 5, 2024.

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Dahomey 332dv 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/dahomey/ letterboxd-watch-665722494 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:13:39 +1200 2024-09-05 No Dahomey 2024 1101256 <![CDATA[

Watched on Thursday September 5, 2024.

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Oh 6f6v6q Canada, 2024 https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/oh-canada/ letterboxd-watch-665722258 Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:13:14 +1200 2024-09-05 No Oh, Canada 2024 1113583 <![CDATA[

Watched on Thursday September 5, 2024.

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The Leopard Man k4e5y 1943 - ★★★½ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/the-leopard-man/ letterboxd-watch-639232165 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:51:12 +1200 2024-07-27 No The Leopard Man 1943 3.5 28438 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday July 27, 2024.

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La Ciénaga 5i561g 2001 - ★★★★★ https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/film/la-cienaga/ letterboxd-watch-639163019 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:05:26 +1200 2024-07-27 No La Ciénaga 2001 5.0 58429 <![CDATA[

Watched on Saturday July 27, 2024.

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Films that mention Toronto (but like kinda out of the blue) 4b171o https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/list/films-that-mention-toronto-but-like-kinda/ letterboxd-list-18316418 Sat, 12 Jun 2021 15:34:40 +1200 <![CDATA[

Self-explanatory

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Movies that definitely gave me brain damage 5v614n https://letterboxd.conexionsite.com/alvinflanng/list/movies-that-definitely-gave-me-brain-damage/ letterboxd-list-32545582 Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:34:11 +1300 <![CDATA[ ]]> Lacey Novinka